Wáng Miǎn 王冕 (c. 1287–1359), zì Yuánzhāng 元章 (alternate zì Yuánsù 元肅 per Xù gāoshì zhuàn), hào Zhúzhāi 竹齋 / Zhǔshí shānnóng 煮石山農, native of Zhūjì 諸暨 (Zhèjiāng). The foremost late-Yuán painter of plum-blossoms 梅 — inheritor of Yáng Wújiù 揚無咎 / Lú Wénjiè 廬文節 plum-painting traditions and an exemplary yímín hermit. Born to a peasant family; as a child of poverty took refuge with a Buddhist temple; at night secretly sat on the Buddha’s lap to read by lamp-light. Studied with Hán Xìng 韓性 of Ānyáng 安陽. Recommended for office by Lǐ Xiàoguāng 李孝光 (zhuózuò láng) and Tàibùhuá 泰不華 (mìshū qīng); refused on the foreknowledge that the Yuán was about to fall. When Zhū Yuánzhāng took Wùzhōu in 1359, he sought Wáng out and appointed him Zīyì cānjūn 諮議參軍; Wáng died shortly after — at the very moment of the YuánMíng transition, before the formal Hóngwǔ founding. Sòng Lián 宋濂 wrote his biography (in Qiánxī jí 潛溪集). His collection KR4e0061 Zhúzhāi jí 竹齋集 was compiled by his son Wáng Zhōu 王周 with a preface by Liú Jī 劉基; the xùjí (plum-painting inscriptions) was added by great-granddaughter’s-son Luò Jūjìng 駱居敬. The Sìkù editors classify him under Míng (on the strength of his late-life cānjūn appointment); the catalog meta records lifedates 1335–1407 which are wrong — corrected here to the standard c. 1287–1359. CBDB id 28798: d. 1359, confirmed.